For $75,000, you can buy a piece of Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar. Luxury publisher Kraken Opus mixed in a pint of Mr. Tendulkar's blood with paper pulp to create the signature page for a book celebrating the renowned ...

The late anthropologist Clifford Geertz famously defined culture as an "ensemble of stories we tell about ourselves." By that reckoning, the tales of "Entertainment Tonight" are as much a part of culture as a Shakespeare ...

Iranian nuclear researcher Shahram Amiri arrived home Thursday, despite efforts by the Central Intelligence Agency to convince him to stay in the U.S., beginning another stage in a saga in which both countries suggest they came out on top.

Forty one days ago, during practice for the Italian Grand Prix, Valentino Rossi did something he'd never done before: he crashed his Yamaha motorbike forcing him to miss the race, his first such absence in a hugely successful 14-year ...

TOKYO—Ichiro Ozawa, the beleaguered former leader of Japan's ruling party, came under fresh attack Thursday after a judicial panel composed of ordinary citizens looking into his fund-raising activities recommended that he be indicted ...

BEIJING—China's government responded indignantly on Thursday to U.S. plans for naval exercises in waters around South Korea, but analysts said an apparent compromise by Washington on the drills will likely prevent escalation of the ...

Earlier this month, the full version of Inspire, a new English language journal, surfaced on the Internet. It's publisher? The Yemen-based terrorist organization, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

After days of speculation that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was near a deal to buy the NBA's Golden State Warriors, Mandalay Entertainment Group Chairman Peter Guber and Joe Lacob, a minority partner in the Boston Celtics, bought the team ...

You have to hand it to Eliot Spitzer: He has chutzpah. Earlier this week, the former New York governor and soon-to-be CNN talk-show host was lunching at the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan. At a nearby table was former Citigroup Chief ...

In April 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to sue Goldman Sachs for fraud, arguing that the firm misled investors about highly complex securities linked to the cratering mortgage market. The civil suit promised to be one ...

NEW YORK—Goldman Sachs is officially back in the euro bull camp. After cutting its euro forecasts as recently as June 10, the bank has pulled its longer-term forecasts back up, citing a retreat in political and fiscal disruptions in the euro ...

The Celebrity of Sport What is happening to us in the rich nations dominated by television is that experience is being everywhere transformed into spectacle. This is not the opening of a hymn of hate against television; television is our ...

Concert promotion giant Live Nation Entertainment Inc. said at an investor conference Thursday that ticket sales for its top 100 concert tours declined 9% in the first half of the year, compared with a 17% drop-off for the industry overall.

It is a rare day when Ryanair issues an apology, let alone pays out compensation. But sadly, the recipient of £50,000 ($76,300) in damages awarded Thursday wasn't one of the legion of victims of Ryanair's notoriously poor customer ...

Our visitors are due in just a few days, so we're nervously going over our to-do list. Are the windows spotless, to show off the mountain views? Check. The playroom above the garage—can we make it clean and inviting for the kids? Sure. ...

WASHINGTON—The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted Wednesday to ban drop-side cribs and tighten safety standards for other kinds of cribs, following a rash of deaths linked to faulty cribs over the past three and a half years.

MOSCOW—Paul, the psychic octopus who predicted Germany's defeat in the World Cup semifinals, was on the agenda when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel to a summit in the Urals.

Traveling in a country where you don't speak the language can be frustrating, perplexing or exhilarating, depending on how you look at it. But if you want to see the world, it's bound to happen from time to time.

PARIS—Carrefour SA reported Thursday a 6.3% rise in second-quarter sales, helped by the weakening euro and a strong performance in emerging markets, but the French retail giant said the overall economic environment would remain tough.

In a bid to win potential orders from the Pentagon, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., and Lockheed Martin Corp. said Thursday they have agreed to team up to build a new Air Force search-and-rescue ...

It's a victory certainly, but it feels a little hollow. GlaxoSmithKline is close to settling a three-year dispute over the future of its diabetes drug Avandia, one of the U.K. drug giant's top-five best-sellers. That should remove ...

The University of Texas Board of Regents voted Thursday to remove the name of a former Ku Klux Klan leader from an Austin campus dormitory. The unanimous decision, which followed a recommendation by school president William Powers Jr., will ...

KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia's government said Thursday it will raise the price of fuel and sugar starting Friday as part of a wider effort to slowly modernize the country's economy and wean consumers from expensive state subsidies.

BEIJING—Volkswagen AG said Thursday it will build a new production plant in China's Jiangsu province, continuing its plans to double manufacturing capacity in the world's largest auto market in the next few years.

EAST PALO ALTO—Silicon Valley is home to one of the nation's heaviest concentrations of toxic-waste sites. The costly effects of the region's tainted industrial past can be seen in this city's eastern outskirts.

LONDON—U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said Thursday he will give lawmakers on parliament's Treasury Select Committee the right to veto the new head of the Office for Budget Responsibility in a bid to quash concerns ...

HONG KONG—The highflying maker of a Chinese herbal shampoo widely known for its claims to treat male baldness is under a spotlight, as it disputes a Hong Kong media report that drove its shares down 7.9% Thursday.

The greater Silicon Valley region has a high concentration of EPA-designated National Priority List toxic-waste sites. Romic is part of a Brownfield area, a site the EPA says could be 'complicated' by contamination.

Crude prices settled lower following a flood of economic data signaling slower economic growth. Thursday, light, sweet crude for August delivery settled down 42 cents, or 0.6%, at $76.62 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent ...

Gold futures ended with small gains, as mixed U.S. and Chinese indicators clouded an already-hazy economic picture. The most actively traded contract, for August delivery, settled up $1.30, at $1,208.30 an ounce on the Comex division of the ...

LONDON—The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said Thursday it expects global oil demand to grow moderately next year, in an indication the oil cartel will probably keep its big supply cuts in place well into a third straight ...

NEW YORK—The stock market shook a few big monkeys off its back on Thursday. Stocks clawed back from deep in negative territory as the prospect of a settlement between Goldman Sachs Group and the Securities and Exchange Commission and the ...

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. generated strong second-quarter earnings as it recovered from wounds caused by soured loans. For the first time since the American economy started to recover, it was Main Street rather than Wall Street that lifted ...

Private-equity firm Carlyle Group has agreed to buy vitamin and nutritional supplements maker NBTY Inc. for $3.8 billion, in what would be the year's largest transaction to take a public company private.

ATHENS—Greece's fourth-largest lender by assets, Piraeus Bank SA, said Thursday it will offer €701 million ($892.9 million) to acquire controlling stakes in two Greek government-controlled banks, in what is seen as the first in a ...

BEIJING—China's central bank made its most detailed statement yet on its decision last month to end the Chinese currency's nearly two-year peg to the U.S. dollar, saying the move is in the country's long-term and fundamental ...

BEIJING—Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it settled a copyright infringement case with China's Citic Kington Securities Co., marking another small victory for the company against software piracy in China.

DUBLIN—Nights of rioting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, involving children as young as nine, have more to do with the social and economic problems plaguing the U.K. province than widespread political unrest in the wake of the annual July 12 ...

STOCKHOLM—Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB Thursday reported a 9% rise in same-store sales in June after its sales a year earlier were weighed by slow consumer spending in the economic downturn.

FRANKFURT—Registrations of new cars in Europe declined for a third consecutive month in June, as the industry braces for a bumpy ride in coming months following the end of various state-backed scrapping incentive plans in the region.

European stocks finished modestly lower as downbeat economic news from the U.S. raised concern about the pace of the recovery, offsetting strong earnings from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and receding fears about the euro-zone crisis.

TOKYO—The Bank of Japan on Thursday upgraded its growth projections for this fiscal year to 2.6% from 1.8%, with the economy expected to continue recovering on the back of healthy exports and a pickup in domestic demand.

BEIJING—China's economic growth slowed in the second quarter of 2010, official figures showed, as stimulus spending continued to wind down gradually and controls on bank lending and property speculation began to be felt in the broader ...

Quality, not quantity, needs to become the mantra for China's economic policy makers. At present, the nation's economic growth is coming in strong on the back of still-loose economic policy: The on-year growth rate of 10.3% in the ...

MELBOURNE—Sigma Pharmaceuticals Ltd. on Thursday revealed full-year net profit will be as much as 46% below previous guidance, as its generics business and one-off costs stemming from a takeover offer weigh on the bottom line.

Vivek Kundra is the U.S. government's chief information officer. A Wednesday Technology article about a government freeze on tech spending incorrectly identified him as the U.S.'s chief technology officer.

The Afghan government backed a U.S. security plan. The proposal, which calls for security squads around the country to counter the resurgent Taliban, had faced Afghan resistance because of fears that it would help create regional armies and ...

MELBOURNE—Crop protection company Nufarm Ltd. said it was talking to bankers about its failure to meet one of its debt covenants, contributing to a sharp drop in its share price and further damaging its reputation among market watchers.

We all know that the only certain things in life are death and taxes. But while that maxim is true for individuals, it's hardly true for U.S. corporations. Despite some of the highest tax rates in the world, they don't usually pay ...

The New York State Independence Party is taking steps to return hundreds of thousands of dollars that a grand jury charged were stolen from Mayor Michael Bloomberg as part of an Election Day scheme orchestrated by a volunteer in the ...

Even as the Obama administration cracks down on companies that hire illegal immigrants, it is simultaneously going after employers that it says go too far in vetting job applicants to ensure they are entitled to work in the U.S.

Just a week ago, the European Parliament was clear: the three new European supervisory authorities it plans to establish to oversee the financial markets should all be based in Frankfurt. It was important, claimed the parliament, that the ...

TOKYO—The Bank of Japan faces new political pressure to move more aggressively against deflation, as Japanese lawmakers set the economic policy agenda following the ruling party's crushing election defeat.

(Please see Corrections and Amplifications below.) WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama wants to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class only. Many House Democrats want to extend them for that group, too, but perhaps only for a year ...

If the City of London is sometimes regarded as a gentleman's club, then the U.K. Takeover Panel's decision to punish three investors found guilty of breaking its code by "cold-shouldering" them will do little to dispel ...

ICAP's investors have had a good run; now they might have to pause for breath. ICAP acts as a broker between financial institutions trading interest- rate, credit, equity and foreign-exchange products and has grown from start-up to ...

Teen retailer American Eagle Outfitters Inc. on Thursday will open a store in a Pittsburgh mall with clothes for children and babies in a move that will expand its "77kids" product line beyond its limited website, moving more ...

TEHRAN—The Iranian nuclear researcher who surfaced mysteriously in Washington earlier this week, almost a year after Tehran accused the U.S. of kidnapping him, arrived in Iran early Thursday, according to state news agencies.

Spaniards may be enjoying a nationwide fiesta in celebration of their World Cup victory, but here at the country's most famous annual festival—the running of the bulls—something is missing: Bullishness.

The Financial Regulatory Authority says it is focusing its enforcement efforts on cases involving senior citizens, alternative investments and Ponzi schemes, but the fines it imposed last year show a different emphasis.

Long-term mutual funds had an estimated $435 million of inflows in the latest week as bond funds' strength more than offset outflows from stock and hybrid funds, according to the Investment Company Institute.

By Thursday evening 156 of the world's golfing elite will have walked on to the first tee on the Old Course at St. Andrews. In such a large field it can be tricky to pick an outright winner, which is why 72-hole match bets are as ...

When it comes to lithium-ion batteries, parts are more than just parts. The promise of this technology has investors excited. Li-Ion cells are the newest technology for hybrid and electric vehicles, providing the same power at half the ...

It's a grim Friday afternoon in Sheffield, a city in South Yorkshire, England known for its former steel production. But Sheffield could soon be known as the city where the future medalists for the amateur boxing competition trained ...

Rotterdam, the Netherlands Workers at Europe's largest port in Rotterdam are under attack. When they work on the chimneys, cooling towers and other elevated parts of the port's infrastructure, they go out in pairs, remaining ...

The elected controller of Harrisburg, capital of Pennsylvania, unveiled a plan Wednesday to deal with a crushing debt load that he had previously said would best be solved by a rare municipal bankruptcy-law filing.

DENVER—The leading candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Colorado fended off calls to step aside Wednesday amid allegations that he had plagiarized articles for which he was paid $300,000.

Treasury prices rallied as the government's final auction of the week, a sale of $13 billion in 30-year bonds, drew solid demand from investors concerned about the pace of the global economic recovery.

Bellini's "Norma" (1831) is the pinnacle of the bel canto repertoire, but few opera houses dare undertake it because of the demands of the title role. Bel Canto at Caramoor, an annual presentation of the International Music ...

Coal-mining company Oxford Resource Partners LP's stock declined Wednesday, its first day as a publicly traded company. Shares closed at $17.96, down 2.9% from the initial-public-offering price of $18.50. The company sold 8.75 million ...

There are two basic ways to back up your home computer. One is to use an external hard drive, connected by a cable or over a local network. This method offers the greatest privacy, speed and control, but also opens you to the risk that, if ...

MEXICO CITY—Mexican President Felipe Calderón ousted his controversial interior minister on Wednesday amid a broader cabinet shake-up that seeks to breathe new life into his administration's stalled reform agenda.

Q: I am a long time Palm PDA user. I want a more trim phone, with a larger screen, that will sync my personal data with my desktop. I don't need or want Internet access on my phone. Are there any options out there for me? It seems ...

The European Union likes to present its greenhouse-gas Emission Trading System as a pioneering success story. But our research at Delft University tells a different story—that the system is simply not producing the timely, significant ...

Last month, Peter and Sara Starr gave dinner guests a tour of their new Bayside, Calif., home. There's the designer kitchen fitted with free-standing ergonomic furniture. And the valley views complete with majestic redwoods. But the ...

U.S. senators or Senate employees received 30 loans—far more than had previously been known—under a controversial lending program at Countrywide Financial Corp. that provided cut-rate terms to favored borrowers.

For Doug Lewis, the hook of Australian Rules Football was simple: he married a Sydneysider and wanted to impress her. For Dan Lehane, the teenaged son of Irish immigrants, it was watching an International Rules Football series on TV, one ...

Billy King, whom the Nets announce as their new general manager on Wednesday, certainly has some challenges ahead. The 44-year-old, who was an executive with the Philadelphia 76ers from 1997 to 2007, including five years as team president, ...

Optimistic forecasters say the U.S. economy is likely to grow at a bit better than a 3.5% annual pace over the next 12 months, but even they say that will leave unemployment at a still-high 9% or so a year from now. The moderately ...

A teacher was fired, an assistant principal demoted and a principal reprimanded after city investigators said that a 12-year-old Harlem girl drowned on a school outing to Long Beach last month that wasn't properly planned or ...

As a young entrepreneur, Harry Weinberg vowed to care for Holocaust survivors who fled to North America. Now the foundation that bears his name is giving $10 million to the New York-based Claims Conference to help aging Holocaust survivors ...

WASHINGTON—Securities regulators moved to take their biggest effort to modernize "proxy plumbing" in 30 years. The review of proxy plumbing—so called to underscore the notion that all technical aspects of proxy voting and ...

SYDNEY—The share price of Australian copper-gold explorer Indophil Resources N.L. fell by more than half Wednesday when the stock resumed trading following an extended halt, even though the company said it was in takeover talks with ...

China's remarkable growth rate is unlikely to last. No country in history has managed to grow nearly so fast for so long. "China is defying the law of gravity at the moment," says New York University economist William ...

The former chief executive of IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, a little-known German lender that became an early, high-profile casualty of the credit crunch, was found guilty of market manipulation, marking Germany's first conviction ...

President Barack Obama travels to Western Michigan on Thursday to promote his stimulus plan in a community awash in stimulus dollars but where many residents, like a majority of U.S. voters, are skeptical his economic program is working.

BP PLC took steps to begin testing a new system for collecting oil gushing from its blown-out Gulf of Mexico well Wednesday, after the Obama administration lifted a delay ordered to address concerns the tests could lead to a bigger leak.

Portugal sold more than it planned at a government-bond auction Wednesday, joining Germany and Italy in garnering solid demand for their combined €12.47 billion ($15.86 billion) in debt sales, further allaying fears that weaker euro-zone ...

Prosecutors in Düsseldorf, Germany, aided by possibly stolen bank data purchased by the government, raided 13 offices of Credit Suisse AG as the government searched for evidence that bank employees may have assisted customers in evading ...

Manhattan Former NYU Official Sentenced in Scam The former New York University administrator who admitted to fraudulently billing the school for hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced Wednesday to at least a year in prison.

Yesterday I experienced what amounts to an existential dilemma within the confines of my cautious little life. While walking through Grand Central Terminal, I spotted a boldly colored sock shop called Littlemissmatched.

World-wide personal computer shipments jumped 22.4% in the second quarter as businesses began replacing aging machines, a dynamic that helped Dell Inc. recapture second place in the industry, research firm IDC said Wednesday.

The 3-D animated movie "Despicable Me" could be a harbinger of a new kind of formula in Hollywood: blockbuster on a dime. Made on a modest budget of $69 million, the Universal Pictures release cost less than half to make than rival ...

The federal government will increase the amount of terror money it gives New York City this year, according to figures obtained by The Wall Street Journal. The figures are to be announced Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security, but ...

Retail sales declined in June while more goods piled up on business shelves in May, underscoring a dilemma facing the U.S. economy. Up to now, the recovery was fueled in large part by businesses rebuilding inventories depleted during the ...

For Google, it is all about search once again. The Internet giant releases second-quarter earnings Thursday after one of the toughest periods in the young company's history. Questions about the company's growth rate, intense ...

Aburiya Kinnosuke uses a robata grill to surprise lunch guests with atypical Japanese inventions. The restaurant is in an understated below-ground floor space, but slate floors and hanging bamboo and lanterns create a Japanese feel at this, ...

A weeks-long standoff between the chairman and chief executive of government-controlled American International Group Inc. ended Wednesday, when Chairman Harvey Golub resigned, saying, "I believe it is easier to replace a chairman than ...

Do you remember Carlos Beltran? Nice enough fellow—used to own a condominium in center field for the New York Mets. Ring bells? He's a gifted player, a five-time All-Star, three Golden Gloves, two Tony Awards, one Coney Island hot dog ...

The Economist on the world-wide demand for gold, July 8: Investment in gold ETFs and similar products reached a record high in 2008, of 321 tonnes—and then almost doubled, to 617 tonnes, last year. The stock of gold held by such funds more ...

CANBERRA—Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan on Wednesday unveiled improved projections for the government's finances, including a return to a larger-than-expected fiscal surplus in three years' time, helped by global demand for the ...

NEW DELHI—India's inflation rate continued to climb in June, led by an increase in fuel prices that joined already rising nonfood prices—and cementing expectations of another interest-rate increase this month.

(Please see Corrections and Amplifications below.) ANAHEIM, Calif.—This was a night before the All-Star break, an hour after a Mets loss, when the home clubhouse at Citi Field was empty except for third baseman David Wright, sopping with ...

The last time we checked on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, he was facing off with Democrats over his proposal for a 2.5% annual cap on property taxes. The compromise he's now struck represents progress, but the Garden State still ...

The world's banks appear to be winning a reprieve from tough new capital requirements and curbs on risk-taking, as regulators and central bankers are moving toward less stringent rules than initially proposed.

It may be that the last people in America who believe that the $862 billion economic stimulus of February 2009 created millions of net new jobs are Vice President Joe Biden and the staff economists in the White House. Yesterday, President ...

SYDNEY—Rio Tinto Ltd.'s Chief Executive Tom Albanese Wednesday said he expects continued global economic volatility, but the company left its iron-ore production forecast unchanged as it announced that second-quarter output fell 2% ...

Aecom Technology Corp. has acquired Tishman Construction Corp. for $245 million, in a deal that combines one of the world's largest engineering and design firms with the storied New York-based construction business.

The New Buffalo Shirt Factory in Clarence, N.Y., used to lay off workers to cope with seasonal slowdowns in orders. "Then, on a couple days' notice, I would need everybody back," said human-resources director Pam Thayer. Three ...

Google Inc. plans to announce Thursday it has landed advertising company Omnicom Media Group as a partner in online display advertising, an area the Internet giant is seeking to bolster as it tries to expand its revenue beyond search ads.

It was Padma Lakshmi's last night in New York City before flying out—she wouldn't say where—to film the "Top Chef" finale. How did the TV host spend it? In steamy Central Park with millionaire beau Teddy Forstmann to ...

In eco-concerned California, the Bay Area can claim at least one environmental bragging right: better air quality. But locals may have their geography to thank as much as fewer vehicle emissions. The Bay Area recently scored better in air ...

(Please see Corrections and Amplifications below.) POINT REYES STATION -- This sleepy town of 800 residents is home to west Marin County's two weekly newspapers. A nasty battle will decide whether it is big enough for both of them.

Alcon Inc.'s independent directors' committee emphasized to minority shareholders that Swiss law is on their side in its fight against the complete takeover of the company by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG.

WASHINGTON —The dysfunction of Albany politics is causing an odd side-effect to this year's congressional elections: House lawmakers are trying to distance themselves from the state capital, worried that misplaced voter anger could ...

Dessert at the dinner to celebrate the opening of David LaChapelle's "American Jesus" featured cookies printed with images from the photographer's new show at the Paul Kasmin Gallery. The idea came to Mr. ...

The United States Air Force has long been the envy of the world's militaries—sleek, high-tech and lethal to all who opposed it. Now, at a clandestine military base that serves as the headquarters for the Afghanistan air war, you stare ...

Seven years ago today, in a speech on the Iraq war, Sen. Ted Kennedy fired the first shot in an all-out assault on President George W. Bush's integrity. "All the evidence points to the conclusion," Kennedy said, that the Bush ...

Barack Obama's incredible "recess appointment" of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is probably the most significant domestic-policy personnel decision in a generation. It is more ...

Nestlé SA crossed the line in saying its Boost Kid Essentials drink builds immunity, regulators said Wednesday, in a continued crackdown on companies that promise uncertain health benefits for foods and beverages.

LONDON—The Irish government will likely have to make additional spending cuts or tax increases if it is to meet its goal of cutting its budget deficit to 3% of gross domestic product by 2014, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday.

It's been a hard stretch for American businesses. With the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the near collapse of the world's financial system, a recession with stubbornly high unemployment, the travails of the auto industry, and the ...

In the days following his inauguration, President Obama included a package of educational reforms in his stimulus bill that offered states financial incentives to make dramatic improvements in their education systems. About 10% of the $100 ...

SAN'A—More than 20 militants, armed with rocket-propelled grenades, assault rifles and mortars, attacked two adjoining security offices Wednesday in the coastal town of Zinjibar, in Yemen's southern region of Abyan, killing three ...

Portland, Oregon Gonzalo Ruiz is always on the lookout for another piece to add to his repertoire. Because he'd already mastered most of the finest Baroque music composed for oboe, Mr. Ruiz—a faculty member at New York's Juilliard ...

Williamstown, Mass. 'Picasso Looks at Degas" is a double-barreled delight. It offers not only the chance to see many fine works that Picasso made under the inspiration of Degas, but also an equally rewarding opportunity to look ...

When the 2000 British Open was staged at St. Andrews, Sergio Garcia and Ernie Els were at the top of the golfing world. Mr. Els was the main challenger to dethrone Tiger Woods as the game's No. 1, and Mr. Garcia was the sport's ...

In New York City's hypercompetitive rental market, it's hard enough to find the perfect apartment. Harder still to put in a lease application, round up documents and ready deposit checks, only to be turned down for vague reasons.

When Barack Obama came to prominence as a presidential candidate, his Chicago background—in particular, his efforts as a "community organizer"—reignited an interest in Saul Alinsky (1909-72), the hard-charging activist whose 1971 ...

Intel's customarily conservative chief executive waxed lyrical about the chip maker's "best quarterly results" ever on Tuesday. Most analysts ate it up, raising expectations in response. But investors should take a more ...

When it comes to 4G wireless service, Clearwire Corp. was first to market. But its ties to struggling carrier Sprint Nextel and its reliance on an uncommon technology arguably have limited its investor appeal.

This was supposed to be the summer of the canceled flight. Airlines predicted that new rules to reduce long tarmac delays would force them to ground planes and leave passengers stranded in terminals. But after two busy summer months, it ...

U.S. House Democrats criticized airlines Wednesday for increasingly charging for checked baggage, seat selection and other services, and indicated they are considering legislation to tax the revenue collected from the fees.

The NAACP decided to yell racism in the tense theater of American politics yesterday by passing a resolution condemning the Tea Party as "a threat to the pursuit of human rights, justice and equality for all" because of "the ...

SAN'A—More than 20 militants, armed with rocket-propelled grenades, assault rifles and mortars, attacked two adjoining security offices Wednesday in the coastal town of Zinjibar, in Yemen's southern region of Abyan, killing three ...

Portland, Oregon Gonzalo Ruiz is always on the lookout for another piece to add to his repertoire. Because he'd already mastered most of the finest Baroque music composed for oboe, Mr. Ruiz—a faculty member at New York's Juilliard ...

Williamstown, Mass. 'Picasso Looks at Degas" is a double-barreled delight. It offers not only the chance to see many fine works that Picasso made under the inspiration of Degas, but also an equally rewarding opportunity to look ...

When the 2000 British Open was staged at St. Andrews, Sergio Garcia and Ernie Els were at the top of the golfing world. Mr. Els was the main challenger to dethrone Tiger Woods as the game's No. 1, and Mr. Garcia was the sport's ...

In New York City's hypercompetitive rental market, it's hard enough to find the perfect apartment. Harder still to put in a lease application, round up documents and ready deposit checks, only to be turned down for vague reasons.

When Barack Obama came to prominence as a presidential candidate, his Chicago background—in particular, his efforts as a "community organizer"—reignited an interest in Saul Alinsky (1909-72), the hard-charging activist whose 1971 ...

Intel's customarily conservative chief executive waxed lyrical about the chip maker's "best quarterly results" ever on Tuesday. Most analysts ate it up, raising expectations in response. But investors should take a more ...

When it comes to 4G wireless service, Clearwire Corp. was first to market. But its ties to struggling carrier Sprint Nextel and its reliance on an uncommon technology arguably have limited its investor appeal.

This was supposed to be the summer of the canceled flight. Airlines predicted that new rules to reduce long tarmac delays would force them to ground planes and leave passengers stranded in terminals. But after two busy summer months, it ...

U.S. House Democrats criticized airlines Wednesday for increasingly charging for checked baggage, seat selection and other services, and indicated they are considering legislation to tax the revenue collected from the fees.

The NAACP decided to yell racism in the tense theater of American politics yesterday by passing a resolution condemning the Tea Party as "a threat to the pursuit of human rights, justice and equality for all" because of "the ...